King's Quest: Mask of Eternity Technical

General Information

Graphics

Sound

Requirements

Minimum OS:	Windows 95 or greater
Minimum CPU:	Pentium 166+ - Pentium II 266+ recommended
Minimum RAM:	32 MB RAM - 64 MB or greater recommended
HDD:	400 MB Hard drive space
CD Drive:	4x CD-ROM Drive
Audio Hardware:	DirectX 16 bit Sound Card
Graphics Modes:	DirectX Graphics Card - 3DFX or D3D supported graphics Accelerator Card recommended
Input Devices:	Keyboard, Mouse
Media:	1 CD

Game Specific Bugs

Button for Hall of Justice won't go down

The button in the Hall of Justice in DoD won't go down no matter what. There is a well known bug with these plates. If you only place one or three rocks and save and leave this may happen.

If you place one rock and then place three later or if you place three rocks and then place one rock much later, all the plates work except war. You can only place all four rocks or two rocks at a time never do this with the odd numbers as this is the outcome.

Solution #1

Restore to an earlier point in the game and place all four rocks the first time. If you don't have all 4 rocks, when yo first enter the room, fight what's there so that they fall on the plates instead of the rocks.

Solution #2

Only place two rocks and then remove two and place rocks on other two plates.

Feather of Truth Lockup

The game freezes when using the portal after getting the feather of truth in DOD

Solution: Apply the MOE13FG.EXE patch. (NOTE: You may also have to go back to a previous save before entering this Hall for the patch to work.)

Cannot Find IV50 Decompressor

After installing Mask, you have sound with the intro, but but the display is just white with pink lines runnning diagonally across the length with a message of:

Unable to play video cannot find vids:iv50' decompressor

The setup program didn't properly install the Indeo Video Codec driver.

Solution #1

Uninstall the game, then reinstall it again.

Solution #2

Download and install the Indeo Video Codec drivers.

Uninstall/Reinstall Problems

Sometimes, when you try to reinstall MoE, you might encounter a "One or more files failed to verify" error message. This is caused by installing in a non empty folder, possibly from your old MASK\SAVE folder.

If MoE will not let you reinstall the game without uninstalling, and uninstalling from The Sierra Utilities bombs with the following message:

unable to locate the installation log file, c:/sierra/mask uninst.isu'. uninstallation will not continue

The game is probably still listed in the system registry as being installed because it was not uninstalled properly.

Solution #1

Install using the new SHP installer.

Solution #2

Try going to add/remove in Control Panel and see if it will allow you to uninstall it from there.

Solution #3

Delete the entire Mask folder. Note: If you have any save games that you want to save, move the MASK\SAVE folder elsewhere for safe keeping, before deleting the Mask folder.

Solution #4

Instead of installing the game via the Sierra autorun popup window, close it and run SETUP.EXE on the CD-ROM from Windows Explorer.

Mask of Eternity on Windows 2000 / XP

Note that the following was for issues running the game on Windows 2000 and XP. Not all solutions are necessarily applicable to modern Windows.

Sierra's King's Quest Mask of Eternity Runs on Windows 2000 / XP, but you might have trouble with the game hanging at certain points in the game, such as the scene with the henchman coming out of the windmill in Daventry. It is generally recommended that you apply the "MOE13FG.EXE" [991 kb] patch on a clean install of the game. If you want to keep your old save games, move the SAVE sub-folder from within your MASK folder elsewhere for safe keeping before proceeding. To do a clean install of Mask of Eternity:

Uninstall the game using the Sierra Utilities (Start--> All Programs--> SIERRA--> Sierra Utilities)

Delete the MASK folder (typically C:\SIERRA\MASK)

Reinstall the game. If you receive the error that one or more files will not be verified, something was still in the MASK folder. Delete it and reinstall.

Apply the "MOE13FG.EXE" patch to the game BEFORE restarting MoE

Move the SAVE folder back in the MASK folder

This will not necessarily fix the problem, so check it by restoring to the point of the hang to see if it is fixed. If not, you can try these other things:

Set the game to run in Compatibility mode for Windows 95 or 98. Some players have had success with setting Compatibility mode for Windows NT4

Apply the MS Visual Basic 6 Runtime update [1 Mb] to your system, XP does not need it (though it will not hurt XP.)

Defragment your hard disk (right click on the drive in "My Computer" and choose "Properties" and click the "Tools" tab at the top) though newer, larger drives do not need it as much as older, smaller drives do.

Free up some system resources by turning off other running programs like anti-virus, screen savers, any instant messengers (AIM, ICU, MSN Messenger) etc. You can turn off running programs with the "Task Manager" by pressing CTRL + ALT + DEL and END TASK on all programs. You may need to end some running Processes as well.

If after trying all of the suggestions and nothing seems to help, the problem might be from playing this game from third person perspective, which can hang when encountering the henchman in Daventry. To get around this, just change your camera view to first person perspective (press F2) before you leave the windmill with the ax to face the henchman. If you prefer to play in third person, you can change back after you face the henchman.

As a last resort, you can download a save game from just past the point of the Lockup.

Patches

• Official King's Quest Mask of Eternity Update 1.3 (MoE13fg)   ZIP File [981 KB]

This patch will upgrade the English, French, and German versions of Mask of Eternity to version 1.3. The update adds more D3D supported features as well as some bug fixes.

• King's Quest Mask of Eternity Update 1.3(MoE13fg_64) for 64-bit Windows   ZIP File [751 KB]

Same as the above official patch, but repackaged in a 32-bit to work on 64-bit Windows

New Installer

• SHP New King's Quest: Mask of Eternity DOSBox Installer   Setup File [1.18 MB]
  

Works on 64-bit Windows. Includes the official MOE13FG Patch. Installs entire game to the hard drive for CD-less play. Optional Glide Wrapper for dramatically improved graphics Updates include Improved fixes for cutscene lockups, Works with netbooks or PCs with no CD drives and the game no longer deletes/copies files when loading new levels - The installer unpacks levels for dramatically improved load times.

Debug Modes

To get into the debug console mode press "shift-ctrl-7" all at the same time. You won't be able to play the game again until you hit " shift-ctrl-7 " to exit the console. Once you are in the console you'll see a prompt asking for your password, but there's no password. Enter in all codes in lower case letters.

noConCollide - clipping mode, walk-through walls, etc. conCollide - turns off clipping mode. setFirstPerson setThirdPerson exist listActive handsOff show

teleport: Type this and your map clears completely. Click on the current world's map and Connor will be teleported to that spot. Click somewhere high on the side of a mountain, though, and Connor could fall to his death! (This only works in the land you are in - all others go away.)

debug - crashes game. lookup - bump - makes Connor move a little bit forward and through walls. mask console run alias

god: This is the god command, it makes Connor practically invincible. He can still die from the River of Death and from falling great distances - mainly because it would have been a pain to program - so don't be too confident. However, monster's can't hurt you!

ungod: Turns God mode off.

ruth - easter egg. jeffo leslie welch-piel - easter egg. adam oscar - easter egg. rocket - easter egg. testCasts

set: The following "set" variables can also be used in the mask.cs script file for permanent usage. set KQConner::reincarnate true/false: If you die, you come back to life instantly. set allowAltEnter true/false: Allows you to run Mask in a window or full screen.

Give: Gives Connor items - ie: "give silvercoins 100" will give Connor 100 gold pieces (they originally were going to be silver). You can give Connor heath items, magic items, armor, weapons , and inventory items (Rocks don't seem to work?). Some items Connor was never meant to have, and giving them may crash the game. IT MAY BE CASE SENSITIVE.

King's Quest: Mask of Eternity Inventory List

Related Links

• King's Quest Series